2024-08-08 00:29:33
Nicolás Massú played both finals in just four hours of each other and both matches went to five sets.
Nicolás Massú will continue to be unsurpassed at the Olympic Games, as it will remain for another four years as the only gold medal winner in singles and doubles in the same edition.
This, after that American Tommy Paul fell in the quarterfinals in the men’s draw against Spaniard Carlos Alcarazso he will only continue in the doubles race at Paris 2024.
The only tennis players who can come close to Nicolás Massú’s impressive record are Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, but they won their medals in two different editions of the Olympic Games. In fact, Nadal won the gold medal in Beijing 2008 against Fernando González.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic came close to equalling Massú, as she won the gold medal in singles, but fell in the final of the doubles competition.
Nicolás Massú achieved the feat in Athens 2004, where he won the gold medal alongside Fernando González.by beating the German duo of Kiefer and Schüttler, and in singles he beat the American Mardy Fish.
While in the future there may be a tennis player who wins both medals at an Olympic event, He will never surpass what the Viña del Mar native achieved, as he played both finals in just four hours of each other and both matches went to five sets.